(30-01-2025, 04:21 PM)Olive Wrote: I agree, Jones is someone you'd cross the street to avoid. He's creepy, self-deluded and inauthentic, obviously has a good brain in his head but chooses to use his intelligence to bully and demean practically everyone except Peters. Some kind of personality disorder or sociopathy perhaps.
Yes, exactly Olive - & yay, I'm not going doolally after all, it isn't just me!
(30-01-2025, 05:35 PM)Oh_hunnihunni Wrote: I think people probably need some kind of psychopathology to even be an MP. It is one of the things about democracy that weakens it. We need a way to select people who don't want to be in that job, but who would be very good at it. Instead we elect volunteers with agendas.
And look who we get.
As horrible as that sounds you could well be right; certainly it seems that anyone - or most, anyway - of those wanting to be politicians are somehow lacking basic humanity, commonsense,empathy etc. etc.
in order to be old & wise, you must first be young & stupid. (I'm still working on that.)